grunt-bg-shell

Improve your workflow by running commands in the background and in parallel using Grunt.

Getting Started

Note: This plugin requires Grunt >=0.4.0

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-bg-shell --save-dev

Then add the task to your Gruntfile.js with this line:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-bg-shell');

Sample Usage

For example, say you want to run your node server and also compile coffeescript and sass/scss files all in the same terminal. You could acheive that with the following config: